Above, an exceptional illustration by acclaimed Argentinian artist
EDUARDO RISSO that captures
Watchmen's fundamental crime scene featuring detectives Steven Fine and Joe Bourquin, and dead Edward Blake. The image has been realized as contribution to
Watchmen 20 anni dopo, an Italian tribute book to Watchmen published in 2006 by Lavieri.
I must confess something: I read Watchmen for the first time not so
long time ago. Almost at 20 years of its first publication. I had heard a
lot about its story, and I wanted to give me the possibility to be
introduced into the world of superheroes starting with that incredible
and exciting history. I had been a kind of “superheroes’ culture
ignorant” – not by election, just by a lack of opportunity to get those
comic books in my hometown when I was younger.
And how
big was my surprise… Those were the heroic characters I always wanted to
see! Those ones which lived a simple life, like every one of us, and
they became heroes just to choose to fight for an ideal, a principle or
for someone beloved.
Basically, I could have chosen
anyone of them to illustrate in this opportunity, because all and each
one of them deserve my great affection, my greater respect and my
eternal gratefulness… and so their authors. -
Eduardo Risso, 2006.
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